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Keeping you safe at IHM
- The church is sanitized by electrostatic fogger before every liturgy.
- Church air is purified by bi-polar ionization.
- To ensure social distancing, occupancy is limited to 25% of the church’s capacity.
- So that we remain within that limit, reservations are available online or by calling the parish office.
- Mass-goers receive a basic health screening by volunteers as they arrive.
- Families residing together may sit together; different households are separated by 6 ft.
- Face masks are required for everyone age 3 and older.
- Congregational singing is suspended.
- Holy Communion is offered under one species, and only in the hand.
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This is the fasting that I wish, says the LORD:
releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke;
setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke;
sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.
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DAILY MASS
Daily Mass is celebrated Monday-Friday mornings at 8:30 in English and Thursday evenings at 7:00 in Spanish. Masses are livestreamed at www.ihmatlanta.org/livestream.
LENT CONFESSIONS
The Sacrament of Penance will be offered on the Saturdays of Lent at 9:00 a.m. and on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. Facemasks are required. Please maintain 6 feet of distance from others as you wait for confession. No one who experiences any symptoms of illness or who has been potentially exposed to Covid should come to church for confession or for any reason.
Those who are unable to confess in person due to the pandemic may make a perfect act of contrition, resolve to confess as soon as it is safe to do so and be confident that even their mortal sins are forgiven.
There will be no confessions during Holy Week or the Sacred Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be observed in church on the Fridays of .Lent, February 19 through March 26, at 7:00 p.m. in English and at 8:00 in Spanish. In addition, Stations will be available online at www.ihmatlanta.org/livestream, and each Friday, a different reflection will introduce them.
MUSTARD SEED MISSIONS
Support of our Mustard Seed Missions is a work of mercy that we can undertake together during Lent. On Ash Wednesday and on each of the Sundays of Lent, a receptacle will be in the church narthex to receive your monetary gifts for Mustard Seed. Donations may also be brought to the church office, or made online at www.mustardseed.com/goto/IHM2021.